Healthy, Wealthy and Dumb (1938)

User Rating:

7.6/10   

Director:

Del Lord

Writer:

Searle Kramer (story)

Release Date:

20 May 1938 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Short

Tagline:

Larry Lets On It's "LOVELY!" (original poster)

Plot:

Curly wins $50,000 in a radio contest and the stooges move into the Hotel Costa Plente. Their suite...

Plot Keywords:

Beautiful Woman | The Three Stooges | Slapstick

Cast

Curly Howard	...	Curly Howard (as Curly)
Larry Fine	...	Larry (as Larry)
Moe Howard	...	Moe (as Moe)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Bobby Burns	...	Room Service Waiter (uncredited)
Jean Carmen	...	Gold-digging Widow (uncredited)
Earlene Heath	...	Gold-digging Widow (uncredited)
Bud Jamison	...	House Detective (uncredited)
Lucille Lund	...	Gold-digging Widow (uncredited)
James C. Morton	...	Hotel Manager (uncredited)

Directed by
Del Lord

Writing credits
Searle Kramer		(story and screenplay)

Produced by
Jules White	....	associate producer

Cinematography by
Allen G. Siegler

Film Editing by
Charles Nelson

Music Department
Louis Silvers	....	composer: stock music (uncredited)

Production Companies

• Columbia Pictures Corporation

Distributors

• Columbia Pictures (1938) (USA) (theatrical)
• Screen Gems (1958) (USA) (TV) (syndication)
• Columbia TriStar Home Video (????) (USA) (DVD)
• Image Entertainment (????) (USA) (video) (laserdisc)

Also Known As:

Cuckoo Over Contests (USA) (working title)

Runtime:

16 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)

Certification:

Australia:G

Company:

Columbia Pictures Corporation

Quotes:

Moe: [picks up a glass] A toast.
Larry: [picks up a glass] A toast.
Curly Howard: [picks up air] A toast.
[Sees that there is no glass]
Curly Howard: Roses are red, violets are blue, there's no glass for me, so hot cakes to you. Nyuk, Nyuk, Nyuk.
[Moe and Larry throw pancakes onto his face]

Movie Connections:

Remade as A Missed Fortune (1952)

Come on...they are the three stooges!

Short film of The Three Stooges, back ago with Curly and the other two funny guys Moe and Larry. Curly wins a prize in the radio so they go and celebrate in a hotel, and as usual they destroy everything...

Three women(of course the exact number for each stooge)are pretending to be rich widowers in order to marry the three stooges(no explanation for why they knew that they were exactly 3 men accompanying Curly Howard), at the end they found out that because of taxes the prize Curly won was only of 4 dollars, so no wedding, no girls and no money!

Overall entertaining, especially because it is 15 minutes long...and it just makes you laugh.